Monday, May 4, 2009

A Streetcar Named Desire

In my opinion the movie should have been one of the best movies by that time because of the acting and the quality of the video is fabulous despite it was recorded on the 50’s. Talking on specific things, I liked a lot the Marlon Brando’s acting since he had the talent to make us feel everything so real.
In despite of his fantastic acting, Marlon Brando, Stanley in the film, is the least sympathetic character because of his behavior. He owns an aggressive personality and in the whole story he is only interested about the money that Stella, his wife, must own.
On the other hand Blanche is the most sympathetic character because of her fantasy life. She lives in an unreal world. Therefore, I think she is the most sympathetic because of her funny behavior, she feels as a princes.

About Photographers' presentations

After see all the presentations I feel so glad of having seen such a good job and effort form all my classmates. Trying to choose one of those as the best is a hard and complicated thing, but if I had to choose one, I would choose my group presentation. I saw the effort and good researched made by group, so in despite of all the presentations were great, I definitely prefer ours.

Cinematography: The 7th kind of art!!

Since the man could set a series of pictures as a sequence, this action is considered as a movie. Watching movies became one of the most amusing activities for human beings since they were created. This branch of the art allows people to observe how actors can personify characters and make us believe that they are real. Also, movies give us the opportunities to see the fabulous special effects made by the film makers, which are awesome. Personally, I really enjoy a lot watching movies because this is an activity that let us share with our family and friends a fun time.
I have seen a big amount of movies, but there is one movie which I consider is my favorite as it is the only that has made me cry!!..hahah.. Its name is Man on fire. The film was directed by Tony Scott, starring Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Radha Mitchell, Giancarlo Giannini, Marc Anthony, Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken.
This movie is a remake of the 1987 film Man on Fire. Both films are based on the first in a series of books by author A. J. Quinnell, about a former U.S. Marine and Foreign Legionnaire turned mercenary. The film, which was released on April 23, 2004 in the U.S., received mixed reviews. It was commercially successful though, drawing $23 million in its opening weekend and grossing $130,293,714 internationally.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Some opinions about Sally Mann job!!.. A really artist

Generally, I liked Mann’s pictures since everything that she shows is simply a regular familiar life held in a picture, even the pictures that for some people look sensual. Probably most people disagree with the pictures about her private life and her family, but the work that she wants to do is exactly that, a common life.
Absolutely, I think she is not trying to provoke us at all, and instead she is sharing her family customs by pictures doing that as a part of art. Also, she mixes her family pictures with gorgeous landscapes that make everything looks perfect.
Any artist shouldn’t be censured, even Mann. Because we have to do the censure ourselves, I mean, we see that we want to see, and we consider art that we want to consider art. It doesn’t mean we have got to private other people to see it by censoring. If someone doesn’t want to see pictures since he thinks is nasty or sensual or simply inappropriate, just leave it away.
As a conclusion, each artist should show their job exactly as they did it, nor as a couple of people consider it should be showed. If the a part of the art, in this case a picture, is censored, now it is not art since the artist doesn’t want to show that, but the original picture.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

CONCLUSION OF THE UNIT’S MUSIC!!!

First of all, I’m happy having heard that amazing presentations that everybody did. Furthermore, I realized some skills that my classmates have by seeing the exposition, but I didn’t know. Probably the most difficult part was creating the imitation. Despite each presentation was fantastic, it was a hard and creative process. On the other hand, the easiest part was choosing the historical event since for my group deciding the event jus took 1 minute. Finally, I just want to congratulate each group as we saw the effort to prepare a good presentation, and I hope the follow objectives keep going as well as are going until now.

If I would have the way to see some of the artist that we heard in our class, I would like to ask them if they have been reflected in the most of the songs that they sing, or they haven’t.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

MADONNA, DYLAN AND WATER, HAVE THEIR MUSIC SOMETHING IN COMMON?

After hear Madonna’s songs, we can realize how different are them in relation with the first two singers as Madonna is an artist who have developed her career since 70s. However, despite the time is different, they have some similarities. Both Dylan and Water tried to reflect in their songs what had been happening by those times. Similar, Madonna does the same, but she has been doing in her time. Consequently, we can say in a detailed way that they are artist that sing different kind of songs, but they are reflected the same, just a singing reality.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Blues as an answer of African-Americans’ feelings

Because by the time when the blues was born, the African-American people had been crossing very bad times for them, so most of the songs that they used to sing meant sad moments. Looking in a deep way into the sing’s letters, we can realized how the majority of the songs reflects sad stories, which not only was trying to show how a woman broke a man’s heart, but also what kind of repressed feelings he had. Even though when the songs doesn’t mention anything about the problems in that time, all of them induce us that it wasn’t a good times.

Saying that to be blue or to have blues means to be sad is a wrong idea since the color blue means tranquilly, serenity, etc. Being more specifics, imagine a blue landscape in the huge sky. Aren’t you going to feel calm or maybe relaxed?. In the other hand, everything depend of the context that we are talking about as people could  make it looks sad.